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32. Basil - Recovery

Chapter 32

Recovery

The room we found was in the lower levels, unassuming, and tucked away from the regular thoroughfares of the Palace. Within, stacked and forgotten, were small tower...

31. Hull - Barging In

Chapter 31

Barging In

I tottered toward my room, managing to feel both wretched and satisfied at the same time. My younger self was a little asshole, but he was my kind of ass...

30. Basil - Seeing Red

Chapter 30

Seeing Red

I stalked after my Souls as they battered Felstrife from one end of the ballroom to the other, the crunch of glass against my boots a counterpoint to the scrape and scre...

29. Hull - What's Underneath

Chapter 29

What’s Underneath

I stared at the forever-long staircase and my body rebelled. If I tried to walk down that thing I’d end up rolling most of the way, and that felt like a pretty emba...

28. Basil - To the Death

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27. Hull - Ways and Wiles

Chapter 27

Ways and Wiles

I sat on my bed and tried to focus on the notebook I had taken from Hestorus’s vault. I’d started off lying down – I didn’t think I’d ever been so tired in my ...

26. Basil - Common Ground

Chapter 26

Common Ground

It was amazing to me that after only a short time in Hull’s presence, I felt more myself than I had in days, perhaps even weeks. A creeping numbness had consumed...

25. Hull - Work Out After All

Chapter 25

Work Out After All

Basil wasn’t right. He wasn’t himself. I saw it in the way he’d barely reacted when he’d been given Esmi’s card, and I saw it in the ugly, dangerous look h...

24. Basil - Arrival

Chapter 24

Arrival

The jubilee was a tangled mix of wights, vampires, and other oddities, but I hardly gave them a thought when I spotted Hull. My friend noticed me at nearly the same time, and w...

23. Hull - Shedding

Chapter 23

Shedding

“You’re here!” I said to Esmi the second I was close enough. “How are you here?” I was half tempted to pull her into a hug, but being watched by a room full of blood...

22. Curly - Guests

Chapter 22

Guests

The vampires knew how to set the stage for a party, Curly would give them that. The drapes and carpet had all been replaced, the new set a rich maroon with tasteful, gold-threaded...

21. Hull - Old Man

Chapter 19

Old Man

I felt torn inside. Not in some oh, what do I do now kind of bullshit way, but like some muscle or organ deep inside me had pulled free and was pumping blood into places...

20. Basil - Asked and Answered

Chapter 20

Asked and Answered

It didn’t take long for us to encounter more undead as we traveled the enemy occupied hallways. There were skeletons and zombies – actual skeletons and zombies, ...

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OK, folks, I am very glad to announce that I have an new cover from Kart Studios for Book 1 of Source & Soul! Feast yer eyes!

They're already working on the cover for book 2 as well. As for book 1, the editing is a way bigger bear than I expected, so it's still going to take me some time to actually get the thing up on Amazon, but it's ...

19. Hull - Torn

Chapter 19

Torn

I wanted to laugh. I wanted to scream. I wanted to snap off her horns and punch her face into a red pulp like I’d done to that vampire. It was all such a tangle of shock, hurt, ...

18. Basil - Persuasion

Chapter 18

Persuasion

Hull had been here, just outside the room I was held captive in. I would have been none the wiser if not for the Master Assassin I had set to guard the entrance. The black-c...

17. Hull - Gifts and Bargains

Chapter 17

Gifts and Bargains

“I think that’s everything,” I said, peeking out into the corridor for the hundredth time. Still no one in sight. I’d picked a small empty room in the servan...

16. Basil - Battle Ready

Chapter 16

Battle Ready

“Only two,” I lamented, staring up at the pair of Air Source that lazily circled my head.

Justine was jogging in place beside me, her feet beating a steady rhythm....

15. Hull - True Respect

Chapter 15

True Respect

We walked up the broad, yellow-carpeted stairs forever. I wasn’t keeping track of the steps, but it felt like a longer climb than getting to the top of Hillside from the d...

14. Basil - Elevation

Chapter 14

Elevation

It could have been the middle of the day or night for all I knew, trapped in my mirrored prison, Felstrife working me to the bone. The duels I had once found so intriguing no...

13. Hull - Stupid Risks

Chapter 13

Stupid Risks

“They can’t make you do this,” Afi said as we walked through the sewers, the reek of ten thousand shits so strong in my nostrils it was almost a taste. “You could ...

12. Basil - Tutelage

Chapter 12

Tutelage

After Afi’s brief infiltration, Felstrife worked me even harder than she had before, and I welcomed every minute of it. Our sessions were easily twice as long and composed e...

11. Hull - Plans Inside of Plans

Chapter 11

Plans Inside of Plans

“I must admit I’d hoped to see you again under better circumstances,” the Queen said, breathing heavily as we pelted up the front stairs of the City Watch hea...

10. Basil - A Welcome Guest

Chapter 10

A Welcome Guest

Hull was alive, alive. Who else could it be in the Lows, summoning demons, and strong enough to defeat an Epic? When that suited vampire had come asking after su...

9. Hull - Stronger

Chapter 9

Stronger

The door that led up from the sewers into the City Watch headquarters was banded with steel and likely protected by Artifact traps, not to mention the pair of beefy summoner wa...

8. Curly - Hearthflame

Chapter 8

Hearthflame

“She’s been shed? Are you sure?”

Those were the first words Curly heard as she was summoned into the sitting room of the living. Well, the partial-living: they w...

7. Hull - Allies

Chapter 7

Allies

“If both of us have realized that the sewers are the best way to get around, others will have as well, and they might not be friendly,” Basil’s father said. I thanked Fate ...

6. Basil - Guards, Guards

Chapter 6

Guards, Guards

Cards. 

I loved cards. 

The comfortable weight of them, the glass-slick feel, the perfect images, capturing for a frozen moment the essence o...

5. Hull - Tight Spots and Traps

Chapter 5

Tight Spots and Traps

“The Big Man deigns to grace us with his presence,” said Brin Jagorin, the hulking don of the fighting pits. “Guess he had to wait for his balls to drop firs...

4. Basil - The Workshop

Chapter 4

The Workshop

I didn’t have to wait long to find out what happened to the gifted girl from Burlon. By the next day, she had joined me in the cavernous ballroom along with three other...